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Virtualization Improves Developer Productivity

The many ways virtualization technology can help you and your team get more done.

A Mort by Any Other Name …

A take on one reason why VB is getting overlooked.

ADO.NET Data Services

Access data in the cloud with REST.

Readers Weigh in: VB Is Least Among Equals

Your comments on whether Microsoft really does treat VB like a second-class language.

ComponentOne Doc-To-Help 2008, ILOG Diagrammer for .NET 1.5 and ILOG Gantt for .NET 3.5, and PDF Xpress v2 SDK

New releases for developers.

Resize Textboxes Easily

Use .NET's inheritance or extensibility to improve VB's textbox layout.

Creating Your First Silverlight 2 App

Dan shows you how to take advantage of Silverlight 2's set of tools for Visual Studio 2008 to build an application.

Visual Studio 2008 and ASP.NET 3.5

Peter shares what he likes -- and doesn't -- in Visual Studio 2008 and ASP.NET 3.5

Upgrading Sites to ASP.NET 2.0/3.5

It's good news, bad news if you're upgrading an existing site to ASP.NET 2.0 or 3.5. But it can be done.

Team Foundation Server Reports

The biggest benefit in TFS is its 25 out-of-the-box reports, but three of them are especially crucial to organizations. Jeff goes over each one.

Blueprint for a Software Factory

Will industrializing your component development create better apps?

Using FindControl and PreviousPage with Master Pages

In theory, PreviousPage lets you access data on the page the user just requested. In practice it doesn't work if you're also using Master Pages unless you understand ASP.NET naming containers.

Silverlight XAML Primer 15: Enhancing TextBlock with Runs and LineBreaks

Here's how to extend TextBlock's usability using two Silverlight elements.

The Joy of Sequence Diagrams

Rosario features a new and improved kind of class diagram. Jeff dives into the details.

Databind Page Properties into HTML Tags

Adding some bizarre punctuation marks to the tags in your ASPX file gives you an easy way to move data out of custom properties and into your page.

New MFC Library

Modernize the look of your native Windows apps.

Put Your Data on a Carousel

Infragistics NetAdvantage for WPF 2007 Vol. 2.

Celebrating Technology Innovators

Hats off to developers searching for practical solutions.

Least Among Equals

Is VB treated poorly compared to C#? Readers weigh in.

Use Recursion to Clear out Textboxes

Clear out textboxes using recursion and LINQ; use VB literals to transform an XML document; and eliminate an annoying artifact of VB internals.

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